Some of the most deplorable episodes in U.S. history involve the government wielding the power of the state against minority groups: Black people, Indigenous people and gay people, to name just a few.

But even as the right purports to loathe technocracy, it has empowered an engineer to radically remake the American state in ...

The central bank would be well advised not to misjudge the politics. An easing of monetary policy would put more jobs and more inflation into the economy. Is that what people really want?

With the leader of a failed coup back in the White House and pursuing an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, many Americans are starting to wrap their mind around what authoritarianism ...

What were these? Paradoxically, they concern less the ‘internal’ balance-sheet of Stalinism, than its ‘external’ record. Domestically, Trotsky’s diagnosis of the motor and the brake on Russian ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

Democratic lawmakers Ilhan Omar and Jamie Raskin sounded the alarm, calling Trump’s move to freeze USAID funds the 'beginning of a dictatorship.' They slammed the attempt to shut down the agency ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

A handful of technocrats, convinced of their intellectual superiority, occupy key positions of power. They champion a supposed critical thinking — ‘think for yourself’ or ‘find your own truth’ — which ...

First government work day in the Year of the Snake features strong State Council message aimed at shoring up confidence in the face of venomous challenges.